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Windows 7: Will Readyboost Have A Positive Impact Running More Software Applicati

Will Readyboost Have A Positive Impact Running More Software Applicati

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate on a 120GB Corsair Force SSD and have 1GB of ram with Intel Pentium 4 processor 2.93GHz but It gets a little choppy & laggy when using ram and cpu intensive software such as picture and video editing/rendering and virtualization software such as VMWare so will using Readyboost feature in Windows 7 with an 8GB flash drive help at all maybe even seem like I have 2GB Ram or does it only effect caching/reading times that improves browsing explorer ?

Edit: I know I'd benefit more from a simple ram upgrade but I don't wish to spend that money just yet as I prefer to run this computer in to the ground as I've had it coming up 7 years and was an entry level and low performance computer to start with.. in my future computer I'd junk £1500 to £2000 in self build so want as much value out this first and beside I feel I don't know enough about components to proceed with the build just yet

Short answer No, long answerNO because ready boost does not act as ram or as aid to the CPU it acts as a cahce for superfetch, if you had a mechanical HDD it might speed things up, but you have an ssd so your read and write times are about as good as they are going to get. here is a link to a thread that probably explains things better than I can: How does ReadyBoost work?

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